[PATCH v2 6/8] scsi/ipr: Use sgl_alloc_order() and sgl_free_order()

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Wed Nov 1 04:13:48 PDT 2017


On 10/30/2017 10:01 PM, Brian King wrote:
> On 10/30/2017 03:37 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 15:57 -0500, Brian King wrote:
>>> On 10/17/2017 01:19 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>>> On 10/17/2017 12:49 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>>>> [ ... ]
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if this is a valid conversion.
>>>> Originally the driver would allocate a single buffer; with this buffer
>>>> we have two distinct buffers.
>>>> Given that this is used to download the microcode I'm not sure if this
>>>> isn't a hardware-dependent structure which requires a single buffer
>>>> including the sglist.
>>>> Brian, can you shed some light here?
>>>
>>> The struct ipr_sglist is not a hardware defined data structure, so on initial
>>> glance, this should be OK. I'll load it up and give it a try to make sure
>>> it doesn't break code download.
>>
>> Hello Brian,
>>
>> Have you already obtained any test results?
> 
> Bart,
> 
> Yes. I tried this out on an ipr adapter and it looks fine.
> 
> Acked-by: Brian King <brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
Thanks for the confirmation.

Bart, you can add my

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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